The patience curve: what to expect when you start

Nearly everyone wants to quit at exactly the wrong moment. If you know the shape of the journey before you start, you will hold your nerve, and holding your nerve is most of the job.

Why results take months, not days

Your surface skin renews itself roughly every four to six weeks, and the deeper collagen work takes far longer than that. So when you start something new, you will not see the finished result the following week. You are watching one full renewal cycle at a time, and the good stuff, firmer, clearer, more even skin, is built cycle upon cycle.

The curve, step by step

Week 2, the purge. Skin often looks a little worse. Actives speed everything to the surface at once. This is normal, it can get worse before it gets better.

Week 6, settling. One full skin cycle in. The angry phase calms, the skin starts to behave, and you feel like it is working.

Month 3, visible change. Now you can see it. Clearer, smoother, more even.

Month 6 and beyond, the compliments. Other people start asking what you are doing. This is the stage worth waiting for.

It is not a straight line

Hormones, stress, a bad month, they all wobble the curve. That is exactly why we review your plan. At each review we look at where your skin actually is, not where a chart says it should be, and we adjust, ease off or push on. We would always rather change course early than watch you struggle in silence.